By Madeleine Vance, guest blogger and student at Kent Place School. As of late, younger Japanese citizens are choosing to live the single life rather than get married. But why? Seven years ago, Japan’s population climaxed at 128 million, but since then, it... [read more]

A middle class girl born in the US today has a 50/50 chance of reaching 100 years old. A guess, yes. But the prediction reflects what Princeton economist Angus Deaton says is rather likely. Looking back at the steady increase in life expectancy, Deaton, in an... [read more]

Four decades ago, in a rural Manitoba community, Canada experimented with cash grants to low income families. Called MINCOME, the program provided for different cash payments based on the household’s proximity to the poverty level. The grant was... [read more]

If the proficiency scores of US workers are low and the safety net spending for baby boomers is high, then we have what Barron’s calls the “baby boom budget bomb.” In a just-released report, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and... [read more]